Improvement in carriage-perches



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` Isaac "PRESTNT BACON, or

BEDFORD, MASSAOHUSETTS.`

`Letters `Patent in.l 112,528, dated March 1 4, 187i.

n IMPRovEMEN-rm CARRIAGE-Planches.

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.To all pensons l.tt 'whom thescprsents 'my come Be it 4knownthat l, IsAAo Inns'ron- Benen, of

`Bedfordoi the connty ot' Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have inventeda` new and `|useful 11nprovenienti 1n lerches for Wheel-Carriages; and Ido hereby `declare the salneto be iilllydeserhed `in the `fullo'lving specification and represented in the aecom- F'gure 2j, a sideelevation ,and

' Figure 3, abottoin view oi' a perch as made in ac- 'eordanee with my invention.Y l

`A denotes therearaxle, and

the front bar of the perch. y [Instead of connecting the said front"`har and rear' axleby two bars arranged parallel to cach other, as

they usually areconnceted, I, ini carrying out my invention, connect themby two ,bai's, C G, arranged diagonally, and crossing each other in manner as.. ,rcplesented and `I connect such bars at their junction or crossingf` by metallicl plates, al, disposedwitl'r re# npect to thexnin marineros shown, such plates being bolted orhfmlyixed; to the twovbar '.lfhe objeetof 'this arrangement of thebarsisnot` 'only to greatly strengthen the perch, but, to form` ret enteringangles or spaces s s, on opposite sid'es of it,l

each being for' reception of one ofthe wheels of `the l` front xle"ofthecarriage, so asto enable the carriage i to turn' inra shorter curvewthau itl could were the-f l 4perelnhars parallel and arranged at the nsnal distance apart. `Thevertices of the two' bars `is tolbe so arranged as to enable the strengthening plates, orthe lower one, v to serve as an said angles or spaces s s are toi j bedisposed, (1i-,in other wonls, thejunction-ot` the,

abut-ment for either Aof the wheels when brought amund against the perch. By this arrangement of the strengthening plate it not only performs the function of aiding in forming a strong connection of the bars, but as a guard to prevent them or either at their junction from being bruised or ont by a'wheel when revolving against the erch. i p ihenv-cl-ossed oneaeh other each har-should be halved into the other, or, in other words, cnt away to receive the other,'so as to allow their uppery as well as 4their -under surfaces to be finsh or even with each other, in order that they may properly receive the stay-plates. l y

Instead of crossing the two harsen one another, I

vsometimes bend or arch each, and bring them together at the crowns of the arches, and apply to them .connection-plates, as represented. In this way I form the perch with the rie-entering spaces for reception of the wheels.V

I make nol claim to a carriage-perch having two parallel connectionv bars extended from the rear axle to the front or transom-bolt; but' 4What I claim as my inventionvisjas follows,lthat is to sayv The improvedperch as made, with its two connectioubars C O arranged, as described, to forni on their i twoopposite sides re-entering spaces for receptionl of thewl1eels,and also' with strengthening plate or plates f applied to the said bars at their substantially as specified; I

' ISAAC PRESTON BACON.

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